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Bitly

Who runs Bitly, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest URL shortening and link management alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Short.io

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Bitly

Bitly bit.ly

Bitly makes it easy to create, share, and track short links and QR Codes. Find what's resonating and scale it into bigger reach, more clicks, and more sales.

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Bitly tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

More than all 19 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust
US company
3 tools
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • A/B testing

    Shows visitors different versions of the page to see which works better.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Bitly

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Bitly, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than BitlyNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

5 of the 60 sites closest to Bitly match.

  1. 01
    Visme visme.co English Free plan 2 trackers

    Visme: AI Presentation maker, Infographics, and One pager templates

    Create professional presentations, interactive infographics, beautiful design and engaging videos, all in one place. Start using Visme today.

    Compare Visme with Bitly →
  2. 02
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

    Compare GitHub with Bitly →
  3. 03
    Amplitude amplitude.com Top 1K English Free plan 4 trackers

    Amplitude | A new era for product teams

    From analytics to feedback to code, Amplitude brings AI into every step of building self-improving products. Start free with 2M events per month.

    Compare Amplitude with Bitly →
  4. 04
    Mixpanel mixpanel.com Top 1K English Free plan 4 trackers

    Product Intelligence Platform for the AI Era | Mixpanel

    Mixpanel is the product intelligence platform for the AI era, combining analytics, session replay, experiments, feature flags, and AI-powered insights.

    Compare Mixpanel with Bitly →
  5. 05
    Bolt bolt.new English Free plan 1 tracker

    Bolt AI builder: Websites, apps & prototypes

    Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.

    Compare Bolt with Bitly →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Bitly’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Bitly uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Bitly adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 19 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,215
Vector
384-d
Query
89 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Bitly’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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Built with

CMS
Tag managers
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
A/B testing
Hosting
Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=6YYbatV9m7YWHrdw
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Th+HeZjMKa3QxX9JqLt67kxMrAsEfB9gz51iuPZ…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: VxdtAjqaA6XhwRJO86fcIZtRDqJAzUqlgS8AwZHmd3o
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=fac1aeff65bb8e30ec8efd62a6ba02f2ce19a82c
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-enGte8sEHDo7E13TnxTOPn5k
  • Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=MkeV937L2HSoy5NFJUcwGD4mo6Qguojp2v8Ny0oX
  • Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 41b3ec866726729d

Sitemaps

, 1,656 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.